Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Victor Khomenko (M) on October 21, 2004 at 13:04:30

In Reply to: Re: We All Loved Each Other So Much - a followup posted by patrickU on October 21, 2004 at 07:59:42:

The freeze frames with spotlight were indeed very delicately incorporated in the film - I was sitting there hoping Scola would not overdo it, and he didn't, with the one where Gianni meets Luciana being perhaps the most poignant and well done.

The director always has to be careful with moments like that one, and here Scola showed his sense of good taste.

The scene at the junk yard was also done very well in my view, and that whole "If you were not important while alive, why do you expect to be when you are dead..." line was extremely interesting and well done - shedding suddenly more black light at the character.

We saw this film when it first came out, and this time brought back many memories, and if it dated at all it was just a very small amount, certainly not enough to push it into oblivion.

Perhaps re-viewing the La Famiglia on the coattails of this one would seem appropriate. With so much acting talent that one is also one of my all-time favorite "Italian flavor" films.